Pathways toward commercial perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics

作者：Erkan Aydin, Thomas G. Allen, Michele De Bastiani, Arsalan Razzaq, Lujia Xu, Esma Ugur, Jiang Liu, S. De Wolf · 发表于：Science · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1126/science.adh3849 · 被引用次数：353 · 研究领域：Medicine

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells offer a promising route to increase the power conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells beyond the theoretical single-junction limitations at an affordable cost. In the past decade, progress has been made toward the fabrication of highly efficient laboratory-scale tandems through a range of vacuum- and solution-based perovskite processing technologies onto various types of c-Si bottom cells. However, to become a commercial reality, the transition from laboratory to industrial fabrication will require appropriate, scalable input materials and manufacturing processes. In addition, perovskite/silicon tandem research needs to increasingly focus on stability, reliability, throughput of cell production and characterization, cell-to-module integration, and accurate field-performance prediction and evaluation. This Review discusses these aspects in view of contemporary solar cell manufacturing, offers insights into the possible pathways toward commercial perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics, and highlights research opportunities to realize this goal. Editor’s summary Tandem perovskite-silicon solar cells, in which the perovskite layer is tuned to absorb the higher-frequency end of the solar spectrum to complement absorption of the silicon cell, can surpass the power-conversion efficiency of the best single-junction silicon cells. However, for widespread adoption, the levelized cost of electricity from tandems must be lowe...